The Victims of Southern Mob Violence
by
Amy Kate Bailey, Stewart E. Tolnay
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
On July 9, 1883, twenty men stormed the jail in Morehouse Parish, Louisiana, kidnapped Henderson Lee, a black man charged with larceny, and hanged him. Events like this occurred thousands of times across the American South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, yet we know scarcely...